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How to Configure Google Drive for WHM Backup

Posted by Allura on 28 02 2018.

Introduction:

There is a new option introduced in cPanel backup section to set up our server backup remotely on Google Drive. This feature is available from version 66 and later. So you need to make sure that your server has the latest version of cPanel software.

The procedure of configuring Google Drive for your cPanel Account using WHM Backup may broadly be enumerated under 3 subheadings:

Setting up the Google Drive API for your Google Account

Creating your account credentials

Creating a Google Drive Transport

Setting up the Google Drive API for your Google Account:

Go to the Google API Manager website.

Click Library in the navigation menu.

Click Drive API under Google Apps APIs.

Click Create Project then click Create. A new menu will appear.

In case the menu does not display, the following steps need to be performed, before proceeding to Step 5:

Click Credentials in the left navigation bar.

Click Create.

Enter your new project name and click Create.

Click Enable.

Create your account credentials

To set up your account credentials for backups, perform the following steps:

Click Credentials in the side navigation bar.

Click Create credentials.

If Google Drive account credentials have already been created, click Create credentials and then click Help me choose.

Select Google Drive API from the Which API are you using? Menu.

Select Web Server from the Where will you be calling the API from?Menu.

Select User Data from the What data will you be accessing? Menu.

Click What credentials do I need?

Enter a name of your choice In the Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID. text box.